This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio # 920

Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the first time I saw The Kinks in concert: May 28th, 1978 at The Landmark Theater in Syracuse. It was magic, and I’ll be writing about it at length later this week. Sure, I could wait until the 40th anniversary actually rolls around, but it seems an appropriate subject matter for the 900th post on my blog, so you’ll see it this Thursday. It’s a lengthy tale of music, love, teen dreams, youthful excess, failure, immaturity, growing up, and a girl. If a boy has a Kinks story, it probably involves a girl. And it’s about THE KINKS! We opened this week’s TIRnRR with “Juke Box Music,” The Kinks’ encore song from that concert nearly four decades ago. It’s only meant to dance to; you shouldn’t take it to heart.

Beyond that, we entered this latest edition of The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin’ Planet with no grander plan than our basic mission statement: play great pop music. Pure pop. Power pop. Rockin’ pop. Punk pop. Country pop. Soul pop. Indie pop. It’s ALL pop. Play it loud. Play it proud. This is what rock ‘n’ roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio with Dana & Carl, Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse on The Spark WSPJ-LP 103.3 and 93.7, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/

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